Ubuntu server install woes

This weekend I made a second attempt installing the Ubuntu server.

Unsuccessful

But after some tinkering and some diagnostics I found that the ISO that I burned / used in the install was not to problem. It was hard drive. The hard drive that I am trying to install Ubuntu on is dying. It has enough life in it to partition properly but try and store anything on it and you start getting I/O errors.

Now that I know the cause of the problem, I'm going to move a lot of data to my external hard drive. This will free up one of my hard drives so I can successfully install Ubuntu.

LAMP and Samba Server here I come!